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There is one thing I dont get in regards to the true ending.

I dont get Izanami's motivation for giving MC, Adachi and namatame the power to enter TV's. I mean, why would she want to do that? was she bored or something? maybe I missed something here.

I have just taken a look at Valkyria chronicles and I must say, this does not look like the type of game I will ever enjoy. Not because of its graphics or anything like that, but because of its premise and the way the turn based combat works. I believe I saw a quick look of this a while ago and I remember being very bored whilst watching that.

You are right ac3x that I have not played Valkyria Chronicles. I will look that up on the giantbomb database, I dont play RPG's too often. The last one I played was Persona 3 and before that, Lost Odysee (which I very much disliked).

So I managed to finaly complete Persona 4 last night and spent somewhere around 110 hours according to my save file.

Let me warn people who might be reading this that there WILL be spoilers to the true ending. Again,

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS TO THE TRUE ENDING

you have been warned

So after completing the game's true ending, I have to start off by saying that Persona 4 is probably the greatest game I have ever played. I think the last time that a game had this kind of impact on me was a certain game by the name of "Shenmue 2".

So what is it that makes this the greatest game I have ever played? As I said previously, I reckon this is largely due to do the story and characters. The moment that I figured out that Adachi was the person reponsible for the murders, I was just amazed. The moment where you get to make the decision as to who commited the murder, a list of names are presented to you and you have a few chances to make the right choice. I went through the list thinking about the chances of each person being the murderer and as soon as I hit Adachi's name, everything clicked. I selected him straight away, on my first try, because everything clicked, it had to be him.

Then to think that all this started at the very start of the game where you met the person working at the petrol station.

So, the story is amazing, what else? The characters. Chie, Yosuke, Kanji, Teddie, Rise, Naoto, Yukiko and of the other characters not involved with jumping into the TV are something else altogether. I found myself connected with each and every character and they are people that I would totally get on with. So the next time I jump into a TV and somehow meet them in the TV world, I'll make sure to let them know that they'r awesome.

To conclude:

Greatest game I have ever played.

ok, I just completed resident evil 5 last night and it was way too awesome. This is coming from someone who also likes gears.

So I just bought Persona 4 and I completed Persona 3 a month ago. There are 2 things that are confusing the hell out of me and I hope I can get some help

1) In persona 3, in the field (where the shadows are) I could get something called "players advantage" by sneaking up behind enemies and attacking them. This would ensure that I would get to attack them for one round without danger. It was very easy and not hard to execute at all. In persona 4, I just dont understand how to get this players advantage thing. I sneak up behind them but it seems that all the enemies have learnt their lessons from the last game and have grown eyes behind their heads because I can't seem to sneak on them at all. I just want to get the "players advantage" thing but I cant launch a surprise attack. Do I sneak up on them? if so, how? Do I have to attack them in a different way now? I hope somebody can help me out on this.

2) When I "knocked down" an enemy in persona 3, this would assure me that the enemy cannot attack in that round because he has to waste hes go by standing up. It seems that persona 4 does not have this anymore. When I knock down an enemy, the enemy can get up and attack at the same time. Am I right here? I don't know if im a fan of this particular change if I am right on this.

thanks in advance for your answers.

Oh shenmue.  Shenmue belongs to one of my all time favourite games.

So the problem that I had previously was the cancellation of special moves. I could never cancel a special move during online or arcade matches and I just couldnt figure out why the hell it does not work! I pull it off flawlessly in training and I could never do it in an actual match.

Now though, after the help of steve_evil, the solution has been found. I use Sakura so I dont know if the same applies to all characters or not. When using a EX move, at least 2 bars of the S gauge must be full for the cancellation of a EX move to work. The cancellation will cause 2 whole bars to go so as to prevent people from constantly cancelling. 

When I use Sakura's Shuryoken, a very useful move, I must be careful that the opponent will not block it otherwise it leaves me wide open for any sort of attack. If the opponent does block, I will have to pay the price by sacrificing two bars to prevent an open attack. Very interesting. I like how I have to think about what I'm doing and I have to think fast.

Oh and the other half, online. I never got anybody disconnecting before but today, today was unbelievable. Constant disconnections. What a bunch of assholes! They see that I'm not easy and so they disconnect? It didn't happen once or twice either. This happened too many times today. I do wish that qualified as my win and their loss. I would'v thought that Capcom would foresee this problem. I mean, it should be obvious, right?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! really? it has to be half full? I will have to try that. I can never ever pull it off during a match in arcade or online and I was getting so unbelievably frustrated with this. When I go to training mode though, I always set it so that my S gauge is full and I always pull it off without fail.

I will have to try this. Your first post is a very helpful post steve_evil

I think I would have to agree with the online part. I'm not a fan of tournament because then that means I have to wait for people to finish fighting and then play.

What I do is go to arcade mode, 5 rounds, set computer to easiest and wait for people to challenge me whilst studying or something.